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From ending sexualised violence against Indigenous women to promoting gender self-determination, the outstanding research of our 2016 Trudeau scholars is crucial, ground-breaking and is getting noticed. From Québec City to Vancouver, these doctoral students have been celebrated widely by the higher ed community, as evidenced in the wide range of university news about their pressing work in the humanities and social sciences. Here's a roundup of stories from coast to coast:

In Québec, Antoine Pellerin of Université Laval hopes to propose new legal and administrative framework for public contracts that better balances the public interest and freedom of contract. Check out his interview in Le Fil.

Université de Montréal is home to two Trudeau scholars this year. While Sébastien Brodeur-Girard is researching ways to reconcile Western law and Indigenous legal traditions with the help of relational law, a theory that places relationships at the center of legal thought and practice, Samuel Blouin is analyzing how two approaches to assisted dying – Quebec’s and Vaud, Switzerland’s – are testing boundaries in medicine, law, and life itself. Read what UdeM news had to say about their work.

Anna Dion is seeking to improve the quality and access to maternity care for marginalized women in Canada, especially immigrant and refugee women, and at-risk adolescents. McGill University honored her scholarship with an article.

Marie-Ève Desroches is investigating the factors that influence the adoption of inclusive municipal policies designed to reduce health inequity in Canada. Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) published a glowing piece about her work.

Similarly, University of Toronto proudly published a piece about its three Trudeau scholars. Christopher Campbell-Durufléanalyzes how new rules of international law resulting from United Nations climate change negotiations might allow Canada and other international actors to respond to climate change in innovative ways. Ido Katriis proposing an approach to promoting gender self-determination that accounts for the diversity of transgendered people’s unique challenges and values their lived experiences of the law. Cynthia Morinvilleis exploring the lived experiences of informal workers in the global South who extract rare metals from discarded electronic waste. Her research uses documentary filmmaking and photography to tell the e-waste story in a new way. Check out the article.

Cynthia Morinville (geography, University of Toronto) is exploring the lived experiences of informal workers in the global South who extract rare metals from discarded electronic waste. Her research uses documentary filmmaking and photography to tell the e-waste story in a new way.

Samuel Blouin (sociology and religious studies, Université de Montréal and Université de Lausanne): Drawing on field research, Samuel is analyzing how two approaches to assisted dying – Quebec’s and Vaud, Switzerland’s – are testing boundaries in medicine, law, and life itself.

Jesse Thistle (history, York University) is studying the lives of Metis people living on road allowances – makeshift communities built on Crown land along roads and railways on the Canadian Prairies in the 20th century.

Marie-Ève Desroches (urban studies, Institut national de la recherche scientifique) is investigating the factors that influence the adoption of inclusive municipal policies designed to reduce health inequity in Canada.

Pauline Voon (population and public health, University of British Columbia) is exploring how the link between pain management and addiction may affect risky drug use behaviours, health outcomes, and clinical practices and policies.

Christopher Campbell-Duruflé (international law, University of Toronto) analyzes how new rules of international law resulting from United Nations climate change negotiations might allow Canada and other international actors to respond to climate change in innovative ways.

Ido Katri (law, University of Toronto) is proposing an approach to promoting gender self-determination that accounts for the diversity of transgendered people’s unique challenges and values their lived experiences of the law.

Gillian McKay (public health, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) is researching ways to provide safe maternal health services during infectious disease epidemics in post-conflict countries such as Sierra Leone.

Sébastien Brodeur-Girard (law, Université de Montréal) is researching ways to reconcile Western law and Indigenous legal traditions with the help of relational law, a theory that places relationships at the center of legal thought and practice.